{"product_id":"the-wisdom-of-the-enlightenment-hardcover","title":"The Wisdom of the Enlightenment - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael K. Kellogg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnlightenment\u003ci\u003e--Aufklärung \u003c\/i\u003ein German, \u003ci\u003eLumières\u003c\/i\u003e in French\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eis more an idea than a period. But it is an idea that took hold in a particular historical context of revolutionary scientific advances, increasing economic and social freedom, rising literacy and prosperity, and a greater willingness to challenge the authoritarianism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of the Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e, author Michael K. Kellogg points to 1637, the year that gave us Rene Descartes' landmark inquiry into truth, as the beginning of a period that radically changed individual human thought and collective societal action. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Descartes' assertion of \"I think, therefore I am,\" to the philosophies of Enlightenment thinkers like Moliere, Spinoza, Voltaire, Hume, and Kant, this book charts the new and revolutionary philosophies at a time when progress seemed possible across the whole range of human knowledge and endeavor. In sweeping aside tired superstitions and applying a new scientific methodology, the Enlightenment ideas of progress through free exercise of reason ushered us into the modern world. This engaging and comprehensive survey of Enlightenment thoughts and thinkers is a celebration of the faith that all problems are solvable by human reason. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael K. Kellogg (Washington, DC), educated at Stanford and Oxford in philosophy and at Harvard Law School, is a founding and managing partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans \u0026amp; Figel, PLLC. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Wisdom of the Renaissance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Wisdom of the Middle Ages\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Greek Search for Wisdom, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Roman Search for Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.1 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333332504813,"sku":"9781633887930","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/iU090f_JSF9781633887930.webp?v=1784984278","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-gb\/products\/the-wisdom-of-the-enlightenment-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}